The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited

Reparations or Separation?

Mark Lawrence McPhail

In this updated and significantly expanded edition of his The Rhetoric of Racism, Mark Lawrence McPhail responds to subsequent critiques and advances in scholarship. Like the earlier text, Revisited looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism—how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Revised introductions and four new chapters add thorough discussions of essentialism and racial difference; theories of complicity and coherence, including critical applications; the theory of racism as a problem of psychiatry; and perspectives on contemporary racial discourse.
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Mark Lawrence McPhail is chair of the Department of Communication at Miami University of Ohio.

Chapter 1 PrefacePart 2 The Rhetoric of RacismChapter 3 Introduction: In the Shadow of the WorldChapter 4 From Socrates to South AfricaChapter 5 Language and OppressionChapter 6 Racism in Black and WhiteChapter 7 Race as Symbolic RealityChapter 8 From Complicity to CoherencePart 9 Revisiting the Rhetoric of RacismChapter 10 The Politics of ComplicityChapter 11 Re-Signing the OppositionChapter 12 The Hope That Hate ProducedChapter 13 Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Our TimesChapter 14 References

The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited

Reparations or Separation?

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Summary

In this updated and significantly expanded edition of his The Rhetoric of Racism, Mark Lawrence McPhail responds to subsequent critiques and advances in scholarship. Like the earlier text, Revisited looks at the rhetorical dynamics of racism—how, in addition to social and material structures and institutions, language can be a cause and facilitator of racism. Revised introductions and four new chapters add thorough discussions of essentialism and racial difference; theories of complicity and coherence, including critical applications; the theory of racism as a problem of psychiatry; and perspectives on contemporary racial discourse.

Mark Lawrence McPhail is chair of the Department of Communication at Miami University of Ohio.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 PrefacePart 2 The Rhetoric of RacismChapter 3 Introduction: In the Shadow of the WorldChapter 4 From Socrates to South AfricaChapter 5 Language and OppressionChapter 6 Racism in Black and WhiteChapter 7 Race as Symbolic RealityChapter 8 From Complicity to CoherencePart 9 Revisiting the Rhetoric of RacismChapter 10 The Politics of ComplicityChapter 11 Re-Signing the OppositionChapter 12 The Hope That Hate ProducedChapter 13 Conclusion: The Rhetoric of Our TimesChapter 14 References